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NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Authorities investigating the massacre of 20 students and six adults at an elementary school are questioning two adults who were wounded in the shooting and survived, Connecticut State Police said on Monday. The two survivors of Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, are considered key witnesses who may be able to help police reconstruct the steps taken by the 20-year-old gunman who opened fire, State Police Lieutenant J. Paul Vance said at a media briefing.

The Oswego Community Unit School District 308 board last week approved the hiring of Edward Howerton, an assistant principal at nearby Neuqua Valley High School, to oversee a new school, which is set to open in fall 2004. "I'm excited," Howerton said. "The selection process was very challenging, comprehensive and thorough. It's a dream opportunity for an administrator." Howerton, who starts in Oswego July 1, will hire the school's staff as well as oversee the construction under way at Wolfs Crossing and Harvey Roads.

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will deliver a statement at 3:15 p.m. EST (2015 GMT) on Friday about the deadly shooting rampage at an elementary school in Connecticut, the White House said. Obama will speak to reporters in the White House briefing room.

A 37-year-old Berkeley man has been arrested in connection with a burglary at an elementary school this week in La Grange, La Grange police announced today. Sandro Caban of 1237 N. Lind St., was charged Friday with one count of burglary, police said. Read more at TribLocal.

Dec 14 (Reuters) - The gunman in a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school has been killed, ABC News reported, citing unnamed authorities. All public schools in Newtown, Connecticut, were placed in lockdown on Friday following a report of a shooting at one of the district's elementary s c hools, the superintendent's office said. Reports of casualties were unclear. (Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Jackie Frank)

After hearing dozens of complaints from parents who are worried about changes to attendance boundaries in Indian Prairie District 204, administrators recently traveled several bus routes to obtain data. Parents from Meadow Lakes and Chicory Place subdivisions are fighting a proposal that would send their children to the new Owen Elementary School on the east side of the district. In public meetings, parents have said the bus rides might take from 30 to 50 minutes in each direction because the routes are about 7 miles long.

Starting in elementary school and continuing through high school and university, students in Poland say they live in a world where academic cheating is simply taken as a matter of course. Parents condone it, teachers wink at it, and students say they do it because everyone else does. The methods range from simple crib sheets tucked up the sleeve to sophisticated miniature radio transmitting devices. Mothers working in school cafeterias have been known to slip exam answers into the egg salad sandwiches.

An 18-year-old man and two juveniles were arrested and charged with a shooting Monday that left a girl injured near several elementary schools in the Little Village neighborhood, police said. Ignacio Nuci of the 2300 block of South Hoyne Avenue was charged with aggravated battery and discharge of a firearm and attempted murder, police said. Nucio appeared in court today and was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail, according to prosecutors. Jose Quinones, 16, was charged as an adult and is expected in bond court on Wednesday, prosecutors said.

The Chicago school board Wednesday agreed to restore the name of track star Jesse Owens to a South Side elementary school. The name was removed when the district closed 47 elementary schools this summer. While Jesse Owens Community Academy in the West Pullman neighborhood was among the schools that was closed, the building stayed open for some students from nearby Gompers Fine Arts Options Elementary School. The school took the Gompers name. Jesse Owens was an African American track star whose gold medal winning performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was also a symbolic victory over Adolf Hitler.